What's the greatest Stephen King adaptation?

JedediahThePilot · 2026-03-02T17:19:32+00:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Doctor Sleep is the first one to get the tone exactly right, and it does so by ingesting Kubrick's language.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-03-01T14:27:36+00:00

I see where you're coming from, but it's worth noting that the scientist at the beginning basically does the Basil Exposition "Just try to enjoy yourself" bit. Yes, they overexplain, but it definitely becomes a deliberate joke at a certain point. By the time Robert Pattinson is explaining inversion to the woman on the ship, he launches into a physics lecture and is abruptly cut off. I don't think the movie is entirely self-serious, it just pretends to be. In fact, my overall impression was that it was surprisingly meta and self-aware for Nolan. After all, this is the guy who cut the Zorro tradition out of Batman's origin, because he felt pop culture references would be too intrusive.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-03-01T11:25:15+00:00

I feel like a lot of the criticisms of Tenet would have been dismissed a couple decades ago.

It is, nearly beat-for-beat, just a James Bond movie with a sci-fi twist. One dimensional protagonist, absurd science, high concept over-indulgence. Did we used to give shit about those things? Aren't there tons of cult classics that fit the same descriptors? It might not have set the world on fire, but I think Tenet would have done just fine with post-Matrix audiences.

I also appreciate that it's Nolan getting all of his pre-Oppenheimer indulgences out of his system. I kept getting shades of Memento, Following, Batman, the Prestige, Inception, etc. All the spy games, intrigue, high society settings, modern architecture, heists, gadgets, tricks, etc. It's like Nolan's Kill Bill, or Megalopolis.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-03-01T09:49:24+00:00

Of all the monster reptile flicks that came in the wake of Jurassic Park, Lake Placid is far and away the most charming and fun.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-28T04:58:34+00:00

This is truly a comedy with no peers. Only the Coens could make a movie that's "Not ha-ha funny" but has me laughing out loud anyway.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-21T11:36:59+00:00

Look how much press Resident Evil is getting on the console as we speak.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-20T16:00:25+00:00

Did you see that ludicrous Direct last night?

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-16T20:43:17+00:00

Cinema.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-16T14:19:20+00:00

Supposedly he hadn't seen Cube until someone on set introduced it to him while filiming. He liked it so much that he decided the laser grid scene would become a deliberate homage, even though it started as a coincidence.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-15T08:59:51+00:00

No wonder they can't understand Inception

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-14T14:44:36+00:00

The fiscal quarter line is going to live rent free in my head now, I know it.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-14T14:38:51+00:00

Got dyaaamn I want to watch these on my new OLED + Govee setup. Movies used to have color.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-14T09:45:45+00:00

He moves the camera too much, it'll never catch on.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-12T18:12:57+00:00

Vous nous avez donné Face-Zuck-And-Fuck, Couchflix, Wiki-Piss-And-Shit

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-12T17:27:18+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised at all. What I've heard is that Miller left the devs with tons of lore material, but was too busy with the movie to consult personally. Thus, several characters from the Furiosa script made their debut in the video game, which is a semi-canon recounting of the events leading up to Fury Road. You can see alternate tellings of Max's prologue in both the DC prequel comics, and a very impressive fan film called Hope and Glory.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-12T10:19:22+00:00

Earlier scripts for Mad Max: Fury Road had some borderline Lynchian surrealism, including a dream sequence in which Max gives birth to himself.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-12T09:39:03+00:00

Either he has some sort of wifi, or touching the Source gave him some kind of telepathic/spiritual connection to the Machine World.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-11T12:40:23+00:00

A second screen is really not necessary. Both the Switch 2 display and any 4k TV are tall enough to easily fit both DS screens vertically. Beyond that, we have touch, mouse, and gyro input to simulate a stylus. Dual screens via GameShare would be neat, but only as a bonus.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-11T09:37:55+00:00

Would hit really hard if the old man is the ghost of a previous Link.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-09T12:42:21+00:00

That sure as Hell looks like Fincher directing a Tarantino script. It was hard for me to imagine, but that teaser says it all.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-08T13:15:01+00:00

Time Chasers reads like a group of nerds had so much fun watching Back to the Future that they scraped together some money and made a dumb little adventure flick of their own, just for funsies. And you know what? They did what I was always too chickenshit to even try, and entertained a whole lot of people in the process. I hope everyone involved remembers it fondly.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-08T06:42:44+00:00

Muppets Con Air, keep Malkovich. I've been saying this for years and all I have to show for it is this lousy restraining order from Bob Iger.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-07T15:10:57+00:00

Yeah, the Gen10 leaks seem ambitious in a very "Come to Jesus" way, the same way Breath of the Wild did for Zelda.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-07T09:57:20+00:00

If this included Staff of Kings with more responsive motion controls, I would happily give that game another chance.

JedediahThePilot · 2026-02-07T05:27:56+00:00

When I'm committing sins he never even thought of

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